The Deadly Sins Of Leadership

Our project was about the 7 Deadly Sins, for example lust, gluttony,greed,laziness,wrath,envy, and pride. I learned about the 7 ways that you can sin which most people don’t even know about. Many people sin without even knowing and when they see our artwork they will realize what they have done wrong. Some facts that I learned were about greed. Greed is one of the 7 sins because us as humans want to be rich and have money, but some people want more than that, some people want to be able to have everything they want and show off to other people. I also learned that the 7 deadly sins also have another name, that being capital vices or cardinal sins. Some facts that I already knew were that pride was one of the most common sins that people make

Being a leader is always a challenge, and assuming a new command is challenging. There are a lot of expectations to me as a leader. The organization has selected me to a new position, and they believe I fulfill their standards for their leaders. The organization trust and expect me to lead, develop and achieve. My superiors and subordinates have a lot of expectations. They expect me to lead them in the best way to solve our assigned missions. In my new assignment as commander of 4th Armor Brigade Combat Team (ABCT), the main critical leadership problems are the lack of cohesive teams, ethical and work standards and the level of stress. I will through analyze explain and defend my selection of critical leadership problems and apply a model for solving them, including implementing and measuring my vision as the new brigade commander.

Authors Bennis and Thomas argue in the article “Crucibles of Leadership” that the ability that an individual has in finding meaning and responding to negative events is a factor of leadership that is the most reliable and predictable. Several examples depict situations that people faced trying circumstances and negative events and were able to show their leadership skills. Bennis & Thomas (2002) refer to these moments as moments as being the crucibles. I have personally gone through a rough time when I was volunteering and being a leader on my group. However, the person that I refer to had gave me an attitude then a comment in front of my group which made my group shocked and that had changed me, due to the embarrassment.

The majority of our studies thus far surveyed the life of certain leaders. One thing that stands out is we all have the propensity to sin and the vulnerability to fall. One of the strongest admonitions to leaders is found in Acts 20:28. It states, “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of

The final section is a summary of learning acquired from the assignment that is useful to the author’s own

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership was written by John C. Maxwell, who is an author, speaker, and a pastor. I found his take on leadership to be interesting, as he believed that leadership is leadership, no matter what context. The laws are similar no matter what realm they will be applied in. He successfully demonstrated how his laws apply in leadership in all forms, whether it is in church or in politics, in history or in sports.

This semester brought the remaining of the seven deadly sins gluttony, greed, anger, and lust. In the order from least to worst. Gluttony takes the number one spot as the least worst deadly follow by lust, greed, and ending with anger as the worst. Gluttony is the least worst because the desire of gluttony can be reduce by being more charitable. Individual who seek to share what they have oppose to keeping it all for themselves are practicing good habits that help eliminate this sin. Lust is the second worst because lustful urges can lead to inappropriate actions such as rape to relive their impulses. Following lust is greed as the next worst sin. Greed and gluttony are similar but differs, Greed is the excessive need to want more of power,

Greed For Good: The Positive Side Of The Seven Deadly Sins defines pride as “is that dangerous desire to be more important than everyone else around you to the point that you disregard their accomplishments and harbor excessive love for one person and one person alone: yourself.” This definition really highlights the dark and sinful side of pride, and this

The two capital sins believe are the biggest problem either in my life or people in general are envy and avarice. I picked envy because a lot of people aren’t pleased with their lives. We look at others who are succeeding in life through hatred and sadness because that isn’t us. We mistreat those who are positive, achieving and etc. because they aren’t us when they don’t deserve to be treated badly. I can relate this to my life because I get jealous easily and tend to cut out the people who are winning in life. The other virtue I picked avarice because everyone experiences this in their everyday lives. We tend to forget that money is the root of all evil. Today in this generation with society watching our every move, we pick the more expensive,

If you try to take a look at King Lear’s sins in a Christian way you will also find some of the worst of all sins in his personality. Of the Seven Deadly Sins which are Envy, Pride, Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, Sloth, and Greed, I find the maybe worst of them in this king. The sins of Wrath and Pride are the most striking features of Lear’s personality, and in my eyes he commits the sin of Sloth in a minor case as well.

Textbooks like Understanding Business, by William G Nickels, train managers in the four functions of Management—planning, leading, organizing, and controlling (p. 187). The second role of managers, according to Nickels, is to be leaders: to guide and motivate employees to work effectively, give assignments, explain routines, clarify policies, and provide feedback on performance. A job description fit for the corporate environment. More than leading activities, they sound like autocratic directives. By contrast, Mathew Fairholm, in his article The Work of Leadership, stresses that, the job of the leader is not get others to follow orders. Rather, leaders ought to get others to freely

“In 2011, a civil war broke out in Syria, ISIS took advantage of the chaos and began seizing territory with its brutal tactics, including on the spot executions and public be-headings of citizens. ISIS became the most powerful of the rebel armies within society.”.In recent years, an increasing quantity of atrocities and informal government procedures have been executed across the world, many of which begin within the roots of an individual in power. In response to these catastrophes, many are searching for answers as to how these disasters were instantiated, and how the correlation between power and leadership influence the outcome of atrocities evolving around the world. Based on the evidence, power and leadership are dissimilar due to the fact that both methods of ruling wage opposing levels of intimacy to their communities, advocating converse strategies in dealing with the running of a government; decisions that revolutionize economic and political situations faced by government parties indefinitely.

“Power can be used as a tool for success or it can be used as a weapon to destroy” (Dr. Megan Reitz) There is two ways power can be used positive or negative. Power can either be abused or managed, it can be abused to destroy and used based on personal preference or it can be managed and organized to help grow and become something big. This can be proved by our history of leaders all around the world. The leader of Germany in the 1935s was Adolf Hitler he is a perfect example of a negative power leader because he decides to try to wipe out all the Jewish people in Germany. This is an example of him using preference for power. Our formal president Barack Obama used his power to help our country grow. He created Obama care for the poor

The seven deadly sins of management are commonly seen within many workplaces as they are exhibited by managers and employees on a daily basis. The seven deadly sins can bring both positive aspects as well as negative aspects.

When an employee of an organization feels their performance and achievements do not matter, that organization may ultimately suffer. Genuinely recognizing the value of your employees will help stop a leader from falling into the pitfalls of leadership, and having their employees enter into a dimension known as the ‘critter state”. An employee that falls into this state is known to have their ideas and skills fall short while they focus on a single question: “What will keep me safe?” (Comaford C., 2013). Below, I will explore the leadership pitfalls and how to possibly avoid them.